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Needed: Farm hands - part-time
Employer: Seed of Life Farm
Eligibility: age 30 & under (see below)
Term: 2-3 days a week for 14-22 weeks

Location: Surrey, Metro Vancouver BC
Housing: Unavailable. Farm is transit accessible.

ABOUT SEED OF LIFE FARM

Seed of Life Farm is a small scale farm located in North Surrey on a piece of heritage land.

We are a family of 3 (Jason, Krystyna and Maya), growing mixed vegetables, herbs, cut flowers and edible flowers on about 1.5 acres. We are Certified Naturally Grown, we use no-till methods and focus on soil health. We use mostly hand tools such a broadfork, hoes, rakes, etc and drilled power tools such as a tilther. For pest management we protect our crops with row cover and use beneficial insects.

We are entering our 7th year of farming, 4th at this location, ready to have a bountiful season. We sell our produce and flowers at 2 Farmer’s Markets in Vancouver (Riley Park on Saturdays and Mount Pleasant on Sundays) through a collective stall. We also run a CSA program (approximately 30 shares), from June to October.

DESIRED QUALITIES

• You have an interest in growing organic food; previous farm work is an asset although not necessary.
• You are able to work outside in any type of weather, and will dress accordingly
• You have great teamwork skills, but also can work alone
• You are able to learn a variety of tasks
• Although we try to do as much much weeding standing up, a lot of the tasks require the ability to work at ground level for extended period of time.
• Ability to lift minimum 30 lbs, do repetitive tasks
• We do take the time to train you properly on each task, but we need you to keep up with a fast pace and have an efficient mindset. As the season goes, the work volume get heavier and it is important to keep up!
• Clear communication and respect for everyone is of out most importance
• Capable of using various hand tools (knives, hoes, rakes, weedwacker, tilther, broadfork)

SUMMER JOBS ELIGIBILITY

Candidate must be eligible for Youth Employment and Skills funding, To be eligible for funding under the Youth Employment and Skills Program (YESP), employees be between 15 and 30 years old at the start of employment. They also need to be Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or have refugee status. Additionally, they should be unemployed or underemployed. International students are not eligible

JOB TASKS

The part-time worker will be assigned to harvesting, washing, sorting and packing vegetables and herbs for markets as well as for the CSA program on Thursdays and Fridays.If available for 1 more day per week, the task could vary from seeding, transplanting, weeding and pruning/trellising.

JOB DETAILS

Term: Temporary/ seasonal
Dates: May-October (14-22 weeks)
Hours per week: 2-3 days a week ideally Thursday and Friday and 1 more day if available, 14 - 22 weeks period
Wage: $18/hr or more depending on experience + 4% vacation pay & free veggies, herbs and flowers.

Housing: Unavailable. Farm is transit accessible.

TO APPLY

Please send a resume and a short paragraph about what motivates you to spend a season working on a farm to seedoflifefarm@gmail.com

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